Example sentences of "[noun] which [pers pn] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She will have spent the last 30 years of their marriage sitting in the passenger seat of the car which she is still unable to drive , disappearing into the kitchen when his climbing friends call round for a beer , and laughing dutifully at his mountain anecdotes over a dinner she has made for his boss .
2 A highly-developed sense of the ridiculous is inimical to the striking of certain musical attitudes ; and , while I 'm sure mason regards the craft of composition itself with profound seriousness , there are clearly many compositional modes and self images which he 's quite unable to invest with the spurious dignity they often demand .
3 for every legislative enactment constitutes a diktat by the state to the citizen which he is not only expected but obliged to observe in the regulation of his daily life and it is the judge and the judge alone who stands between the citizen and the state 's own interpretation of its own rules .
4 The man himself becomes a thief out of sheer desperation , and a sense of injustice , and , ironically , accepts the pardon which he is not willing to accord to the person who stole his bike .
5 If an application to rescind a bankruptcy order is to be made , application should be considered also , as a preliminary measure , for an order requiring the official receiver to suspend the action which he is otherwise obliged to take immediately after a bankruptcy order has been made , namely , to send notice of the order to the Chief Land Registrar , to advertise the order in a local newspaper and to gazette the order ( r 6.34 ) .
6 I think , with the kitchen though it kinda makes you think that 's the fire 's going in the kitchen which it 's not
7 According to Neal , two of the patterns which it is most difficult to plan accurately are eight-lozenge star arrangements and arrangements of " juggled " , interlaced squares .
8 It can make excellent reading but its ordered narrative can create the impression of a unified cultural field which it is sometimes difficult to see beyond .
9 The same applies if the dog takes other things such as slippers which it is not supposed to have , although it is equally important to replace them out of reach for the future .
10 An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive .
11 Mill also thinks this is a very good way of introducing female suffrage at this point which he is very much in favour of , if you had a , if you had a vote on it should if you vote if er there was a vote among the male electors about whether women should be given the vote and there was a public ballot , then it 's very unlikely they would vote against the extension of franchise because their wives and daughters would be able to see what they 've done , so he thinks that erm the only reason for having a secret ballot is that you 're rather ashamed of what you 're doing and that if you have a public ballot people will vote much more responsibly .
12 At the extreme this engenders a sense of relative deprivation which it is now fashionable to take as the measure of poverty .
13 You are under an obligation not to use any little piece of knowledge which it is too much to expect your readers to know .
14 ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] .
15 This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind .
16 It is a concept which it is clearly difficult to define , and which , indeed , is not defined in the Act .
17 And it does have its attendant problems which it is only sensible to recognise .
18 When we discuss computer design variations in the ensuing chapters , we will tend to make two assumptions which it is as well to clarify ; first , that each computer is designed independently for a particular application area and to purely technical criteria ; and second , that a computer design is implemented as a fixed set of facilities for all customers .
19 Let us apply this account to the syntactic structures of a natural language undergoing the process of evolution which it is only reasonable to suppose has taken place .
20 there is not a single piece by anyone other than himself on these discs which he is not able to rattle off with the short of nonchalant ease that would probably make even ARgerich or Pollini green with envy .
21 But none the less the community is expressing support for the FDR-FMLN in ways which it is really surprising to see .
22 Univel Inc president Joel Applebaum last month said in an interview that the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface ‘ is not baked yet ’ : he thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows system that Univel Inc is adopting for the iAPX-86 environment which it is apparently on the brink of shipping ; meanwhile , Univel says it is selling into Europe , South America and the Middle East .
23 We can now assign to each species the various clusters which it is in .
24 This covers the Policyholder for all sums which he is legally liable to pay as tenant , not the owner of his home .
25 Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries .
26 His words were echoed by Kay Kirkham , Stockton South Liberal Democrat candidate : ‘ We want to bring health in general back under democratic control which it is not at the moment .
27 Even in his conventional madrigals — for instance , the Dante setting ‘ Quivi sospiri , pianti ed alti guai ’ in his Second Book ( Venice , 1576 ) and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ in his Fourth ( Ferrara , 1594 ) — Luzzaschi indulged in that exaggerated , even agonized , expressiveness which it is so tempting to relate to ‘ mannerism ’ in painting .
28 This section looks back further into Christian tradition and examines the concept of faith , particularly in relation to the word which it is so often contrasted to , ‘ reason ’ , in order to identify more clearly the stance adopted by the ‘ no meaning ’ theist .
29 Anything the former Open and US Open champion achieves on the US circuit will surely reflect on the European Tour which he is also pledged to support and which continues to flourish .
30 This is , of course , an issue of much wider social and political significance which it is not part of my brief to explore .
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